July 1Jul 1 Is it possible to run armbian with pre-installed homeassistant on a raspberrypi 3B+ ? The reason of my question is, I have running homeassistant on a orangepi pc2 which work very well. On the raspberrypi 3B+ running unter raspbian, homeassistant is very slow.
July 1Jul 1 That might be due to little RAM. I did a test install about a year ago on a raspi 3b+ with 1GB RAM, and it became extremely slow after a short while. htop showed, that the system was completely busy with swapfile access. Even a shutdown took some hours. Homeassistant might claim, that 1GB can suffice, but IMO that's more a proof-of-concept than a workable solution. As soon as you add some integrations, the free memory becomes quickly too low.
July 1Jul 1 8 hours ago, guy cal said: On the raspberrypi 3B+ running unter raspbian, homeassistant is very slow raspbian is old 32-bit ARMv6, or maybe you use wrong naming. I see orangepi pc2 is also 1GB RAM and 4x Cortex-A53. So that is the same as RPi3B+. Armbian should be 64-bit on the orangepi pc2 and if that runs fine for you with HA, then it should also run fine the same way on RPi3B+. Armbian has no 32-bit support for raspberries, so maybe have a look if there is a ready-made image. The root filesystem on the orangepi pc2 you have currently should run almost unmodified on a RPi3B+. The issue is that raspberries boot filesystem is proprietary, but if you know or get to know how it works, you could get it to run.
July 3Jul 3 Author I was wondered homeassistant is running well on the orangepi pc2.(image armbian with pre-installed homeassistant). The raspberrypi3B+, also 64 bit, running raspbian, is very slow. For that reason I would make a test to replace raspbian by armbian. This way I can check if it is the hardware of the pi or raspbian image that make it slow.
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